- Silver Session for Jason Knuth
Infobox Album |
Name = Silver Session for Jason Knuth
Type = EP
Artist =Sonic Youth
Released =July 14 1998
Recorded = 1998
Genre = Noise
Length = 29:43
Label = Sonic Knuth Records
Producer = Sonic Youth
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ys9fs37ia3pg link]
*Mark Prindle rating-10|4 [http://www.markprindle.com/sonicya.htm#silver link]
Last album = "A Thousand Leaves " (1998)
This album = "Silver Session for Jason Knuth" (1998)
Next album = "" (1999)"Silver Session for Jason Knuth" is a 1998 EP by
Sonic Youth . Its eight tracks consist entirely of guitar feedback with occasional drum machine. Jason Knuth — of the album's title — was a Sonic Youth fan who committedsuicide , and proceeds from the record's sales were donated to San Francisco Suicide Prevention Hotline. An explanation of the record is found in the liner notes:"Silver Sessions were taken from an evening when SY had to do vocal overdubs for '
A Thousand Leaves ' -- the band upstairs was hammering out some funky metal overdrive and we couldn't "sing" properly (?!) -- we decided to fight fire with molten lava and turned every amp we owned on to 10+ and leaned as many guitars and basses we could plug in against them and they roared/HOWLED like airplanes burning over the pacific -- we could only enter the playing room with hands pressed hard against our ears and even then it was physically stunning -- we ran a sick outmoded beatbox through the P.A. and it blew out horrendous distorted pulsations. Of course we recorded the whole thing and a few months later we mixed it down into sections, ultra-processing it to a wholly other "piece" -- in a way, it's my favorite record of ours -- I hope Jason [Knuth, to whom the release is dedicated] digs it ---keep on keep on keep on ---thurston/sonic youth/nyc 1998."Track listing
# "Silver Panties" – 4:27
# "Silver Breeze" – 1:19
# "Silver Flower" – 4:48
# "Silver Wax Lips" – 4:20
# "Silver Loop" – 4:25
# "Silver Shirt" – 7:17
# "Silver Son" – 1:43
# "Silver Mirror" – 2:44
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